Yi Cui

TL;DR: A recipe for a scaled up vapor liquid solid based synthesis of CIS nanowires, in-depth material and property correlation of single crystalline CIS nanWires, and the first report of a single CIS Nanowire solar cell are presented.

TL;DR: A powerful in situ optical battery platform for unraveling the complex reaction mechanism of sulfur chemistries and for exploring the rich material properties of the liquid sulfur, which shed light on the applications of liquid sulfur droplets in devices such as microlenses, and potentially other electrotunable and optoelectronic devices.

TL;DR: This study presents a completely new strategy of limiting effective surface area by introducing an "electrolyte-phobic surface" and advances the understanding of interphase chemistry, and the introduction of the universal concept of electrolyte- phobicity benefits the next-generation battery designs.

TL;DR: A novel lithium metal-free battery consisting of a Li(2)S/mesoporous carbon composite cathode and a silicon nanowire anode that yields a theoretical specific energy of 1550 Wh kg(-1), which is four times that of the theoretical specificEnergy of existing lithium-ion batteries based on LiCoO( 2) cathodes and graphite anodes.

TL;DR: In this paper, a battery is decomposed into an anode, a cathode, and a separator disposed between the anode and the cathode; the separator includes at least one functional layer.